New Delhi: Gurdaspur Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh on Tuesday underwent a lie-detector test at the National Investigation Agency (NIA) headquarters in the national capital. Sources told CNN-IBN that NIA had given the CFSL a list of questions that could be asked to Salwinder.
According to NIA DG, Salwinder is being questioned as he is a suspect in the case. He has also said that the NIA is collecting evidence as demanded by Pakistan.
Salwinder Singh has been under the scanner for making contradictory statements on his alleged abduction by terrorists.
Singh, currently posted as Assistant Commandant of 75th Punjab Armed Police, had claimed he was kidnapped by suspected JeM terrorists hours before they attacked the Pathankot Indian Airforce Station in the wee hours of January 2. He was travelling with his jeweller friend Rajesh Verma and cook Madan Gopal when the alleged abduction took place.
The terrorists had slit Verma's throat, almost killing him, and set Singh and Gopal free before fleeing in the police officer's vehicle towards the IAF base. Some alleged inconsistencies in Singh's statements has prompted the agency to subject him to polygraph test.
Meanwhile, NIA has failed to have a clear view of the faces of the six terrorists involved in the attack. The agency, which chalked out the possible route taken by the terrorists to travel to IAF base, had sought help from the public to share footages, if any, from CCTV cameras installed in their premises.
However, except for a brief coverage at a toll post, the NIA has drawn a blank, sources said, adding even that footage was of little help in carrying forward the probe. Seven security personnel were killed during the three-day terror siege, while six perpetrators were also claimed to have been felled.
(With PTI Inputs)
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